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(1) Say, buddy, not to cast aspersions on your survival instincts or nothing, but haven't mammoths pretty much gone extinct?

I stay home and I take care of you, cause what I make is pretty much just a joke.

With a bit of creativity, you can deliberately misinterpret pretty much anything she says.

making t mac score 18 pts a game is pretty much negating the purpose of him on the floor.

Sex, for men, is all about physical pleasure and his seemingly insatiable sex drive is pretty much a part of his maleness.

Because over time you pretty much get what you give. It would perhaps be nice to get something for nothing. But that seldom happens.

There is still time to change your minds and hearts on the matter, but at this point, it's pretty much done and decided.

Everything, pretty much, tastes like the mosses of tundra, dug up in mid-winter.

Scott: Oh yes, very much so. It was a fine display! It was pretty much the first time I'd seen someone and knew that he was the one.

The kind of wealth created by the stock-market boom is pretty much all that legitimizes Communist Party rule these days.

We needed a piece of machinery that could pretty much package our products in an air-free environment.

"I've pretty much come to the conclusion that I'm going to have to move if I want to earn what I made before, or close to it, " he said.

What was impressive, however, was that he was able to achieve pretty much the same results in both languages.

It's pretty much what our government is trying to do as well.

A determined prime minister with a majority of parliamentary seats, therefore, can pretty much get his way.

The book focuses on Namu's difficult relationship with her mother? no small hurdle in the Land of Women? and with pretty much everyone else.

So, even though pretty much every investor acknowledges just how ugly things are, they could be setting themselves up to be disappointed.

He created an open, easy-to-use service, and then let users do pretty much whatever they wanted with it.

Johnson lays out four things the company needs to do, which you could pretty much boil down to this: Figure out a way to combat Google.

All right, that's pretty much what I'm going to do for the next two years.

Marina : As I've mentioned before, doll construction is pretty much the only thing that interests me. Playing is not a part of the appeal.

Web services are pretty much guaranteed to be at the heart of the next generation of distributed systems.

Everyone knew that the Axis were pretty much doomed, so if you were a country like Italy or Japan you had no logical reason to join to Axis.

Not all of these will apply to any given idea you might have, but three or four should apply to pretty much any concept you can think up.

When you're talking something over with him, what you think and what you say are pretty much the same thing.

As a general rule, our noses, eyes and ears wind up in pretty much the right place on our heads.

B: I'm beginning to see that human nature is pretty much the same everywhere.

When Katherine appeared on the scene, it was pretty much a given that she orchestrated the fight and got the outcome she was hoping for.

"High Point [N. C. ] used to be the center, " Masiello says. "But over the last eight years, pretty much everything moved here. "

As you can see, the usage of an exported class is pretty much the same as the usage of any other C class.

Mom: I pretty much had to choose between being the kind of mom that I wanted to be, and being a singer, and, uh, there was no choice .

The reaction of many staff has been "pretty much a mirror" of that of the outside world, according to a senior company official.

Second, Keynes pretty much had the policy implications of the General Theory down long before he actually worked out the detailed analysis.

And a couple of them had pretty much determined that there was no way I was going to be able to pull this job off, and they said that to me.

I've lived in Virginia all my life. Pretty much all that I remember at least.

At least in terms of the shape of their brains, Neandertal newborns pretty much coasted into adulthood.

It needs to be easy to install, no technical stuff, pretty much a simple upload to my server will do nicely.

You can turn settings on and off for certain applications, by location, time of day, and pretty much any other condition you can think of.

That prediction didn't look all that great a couple of weeks later, but right now it looks pretty much right on the money.

Now, whether that means a true biological effect, or just a feel-good food is pretty much open for discussion. Not that it really matters!

They have pretty much decided that the war is lost. But they are not calling for the troops to come home for at least another year.

That pretty much means you're guaranteed to lose money if you lock it up for the long term now.

Of course, this isn't a comprehensive list, but should be enough to make sure that any chance of you sleeping well is pretty much gone.

Nice article. Pretty much everything I'd want the uninformed to be informed of at this point. Good journalism.

You pretty much have the school wired , don't you, Troy ? Seems to me like everyone on campus wants to be your friend .

Instead the FDA labeled it as a "dietary supplement" , pretty much destroying any chance of success it may have had.

Well, when you came to visit me in April, it looked like things were pretty much sewn up, if you know what I mean.

"The fact that he came and apologised to me in Sepang sums it up pretty much, " continued Whiting.

I've spoken at a few university commencements, and my message is always pretty much the same.

However, the essential nature of the protocol remains pretty much the same as in the previous revision of the specification.

Remarkably, it has been a style guide for pretty much every subsequent musical genre: punk, metal, emo, hip-hop, Britpop.

"The trend is definitely increasing and breaking 7 million is pretty much of a landmark event, " he said.

So we recognize the fact that, you know, people can pretty much figure out how to do their own work.

Trying to gain influence in a country which is otherwise hostile and aiding those attackers was pretty much a given.

That scalp business hasn't turned out at all profitable, and I've pretty much concluded to give it up, and to follow a less bloody calling.

So you know that oil spill that ruined the ocean, killed thousands of animals, and pretty much brought the country to a standstill?

Alright bitch, you've got a massive hole in your shirt and pretty much everybody stares at it when they talk to you.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Aircraft and airports are a part of life even in the slow lane at the moment, pretty much unavoidable for transatlantic travel.

Their stalking grounds are forests where, to the untrained eye, one giant looks pretty much like the next.

Durant was pretty much a lock for the Rookie of the Year after Greg Oden blew out his knee before the start of last season.

If you were to compare Mark and Matthew, what you would see is Matthew pretty much just follows Mark here.

The United States was able to avoid default only by stopping pretty much all other government business for several weeks.

What matter is that, I can kind of look back and say, "pretty much anytime I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it. "

I would argue that if you are a Facebook addict, then you pretty much don't have to leave the home screen.

In the latter case, the two forelimbs are pretty much unaffected, acting just as they would if both hind-limbs were still in tact.

It gets an A in the psychologists bag of tricks and is pretty much free, with the exception of the occasional pair of sneakers and socks.

And though he exclaimed at the term, she found that it had been pretty much the case.

Another sniff of wine. "I pretty much control my own hours, " he said.

Pretty much where the economy should be in this stage of a relatively slow recovery from a very deep recession.

For a while, it was pretty much the only game in e-book town.

"It's a vaccine you pretty much get once as an adult, not every year, the way the flu vaccine works, " she said.

South Korea, a vibrant Asian economy; and Turkey, one of the great coming powers, at the crossroads of pretty much everything.

While the exterior is pretty much a well-known entity at this point, despite all the cammo, it was the interior that interested many people.

Salesman: Yeah, that's pretty much the best I can do for you and er. . . you can, you can walk away with it now for 406.

But after two and a half years of living with them, I thought that I had pretty much figured out their routine.

"Just surviving from day to day pretty much occupies your mind, " he said in a 1997 interview with the Salt Lake Tribune.

And why they pretty much run any corner of the ocean they choose to inhabit, come to think of it.

Mountain trains photography offers an exceptional and unique combination or better to say fusion of two pretty much different phenomena.

The model part of our system is pretty much finished now, so let's move on to the next part: writing the controller.

It's an atmosphere where, you know, the dolphins pretty much say what they're gonna do. If they don't wanna do something, it's up to them.

Human digestion works pretty much the same in orbit as well, except that stomach contents float a bit high.

I could ask you sky-write it, or make it with your elbow, or your nose, or your foot, and pretty much we'd get your unique signature.

OK, I pretty much watch every single Rocket game that I can from start to finish. And I have no idea what he's talking about here.

Modelling is a very short-lived career, you know? When I get wrinkles, I'm pretty much done.

"It was a withdrawal that pretty much removed everything that went in a quarter earlier, " said Diana Mackay, chief executive at Lipper FMI.

But it seems to me it's pretty much like anything else. Face your fear.

Insurance agents recommend that you write down the serial number of pretty much everything you buy (computers, televisions, etc. ).

Boxes works pretty much as you'd hope, and I haven't had any problems so far.

The altered-consciousness part is pretty much invisible; I've felt a flicker of it here and there, but nothing like before.

The Regeneration, RoF and huge damage increase for the fighters mean that this unit is pretty much impossible to kill.

I'm going to save you some time and get to the point: just about anything. You can do pretty much anything you can imagine in a lucid dream.

During this interval I confined myself pretty much at home, at least, being thus provided for, I made no adventures.

They walked in, took their clothes off and said "we want help! " and I pretty much taught them body mechanics.

Even cocaine has pretty much never been cheaper (globalization works in mysterious ways).

She also engaged someone to help her with the management so it was pretty much hassle free.

This is (at least for now) still pretty much just vanilla Sense UI 32A ROM with just some minor adjustments to be more to my liking.

Pretty much every industry of every size is constrained by tight budgets these days.

Our design goal was that monitoring could never impact your workload by more than 1% -- and we've pretty much stuck to it.

These days, for more than a year now, I've pretty much given up on goals, though I'm still learning how that works.

"It's very difficult, " says Bill. "Pretty much all the things that make you a good father are now illegal for me to do. "

And the only option, pretty much -- when it's stroke or other complications -- is the wheelchair.

Blabberize is a newly launched site that's pretty much for schticks and giggles, if you know what I mean.

This branch of the river is pretty much fished out, but you might have some luck a few miles up stream.

This has pretty much affirmed outwardly what I felt inwardly about finally getting over the learning curve of blogging.

There is no point avoiding the subject: our race was pretty much over by the end of the first part of qualifying on Saturday afternoon.

And a power tie ? - No , pretty much just a towel .

Well, actually, they're not quite flat in the usual rule, but you could make them flat and it would still look pretty much like a sphere.

After the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers nearly a year ago, lending to banks and companies pretty much stopped.

Oh, and one other tip: Pretty much all restaurants, cafes and shops close all day on a Sunday.

"After I exercised, my feet felt a little better, but other than that, there was pretty much no difference, " she said.

"They were pretty much going to throw them out if I didn't use them for my research, " Moutsopoulos says of the tissue samples.

Pretty much the whole country or most of the country is either seeing moderate or severe flu activity at this point .

Even if I could only do a few spells, it's pretty much the best toy in the world.

"I'm pretty much up for anything" - I have no opinions or thoughts of my own.

He was burning with revenge and felt the need for a plane that would be pretty much invisible to Britain's Chain Home radar system.

Pretty much all the fans agreed with you except their words were a lot harsher.

The media pretty much only shows us all the terrible things, the bombings and the death toll but not the everyday life of the Iraqi people.

Like pretty much every other agency in the government, NASA is likely to be hurting for money over the next few years.

And I told it pretty much the same way I've just shared it with you.

Doing a batch import and then hacking your way through the errors is possible and even pretty much encouraged.

We don't see him very often as he is pretty much housebound, but I'm not surprised the firemen couldn't lift him, he is gargantuan.

It is pretty much difficult to pursue perfection of marriage by boasting all the beneficial conditions, except for a few fortunate ones.

I am pretty much open to any type of design, but prefer darker colors. I also would like it integrated with Google in terms of tracking.

Today, he pretty much eschews the public investment arena, confining himself to an exploration of mechanical trading ideas for personal use.

The situation at Liverpool is pretty much what it is when he took over and what many people thought it would be before the season started.

All this leaves specialists pretty much free to focus on the narrow realms of clinical practice and management.

A minute or two later we were brought in, pretty much as I expected.

"Frank flew down here and said, 'Yes, this is pretty much how things work, ' which cheered me up to no end, " Mr. Wouk said.

For pretty much the whole two years that I worked with him, Michael came in every day wearing black dress pants and a red button-down shirt.

After that unconscious beginning, pretty much every thing just came to me in a very effortless and natural way.

keep saying we aint touching it now, the rights are too messy, we had the figure ready pretty much but its not to be, for us abreast.

Cash flow on real estate is pretty much discretionary , at least after the minimum debt service charges are paid off .

Leisha had her concert and pretty much every cast member showed up Friday night after filming except for you and Jennifer.

It's the hot topic so it is refreshing to see Lee once again explain the topic in simple terms that pretty much anyone can understand.

Oh, for salespeople , the "hitting in the head with a hammer" is using an opening statement that pretty much guarantees resistance.

It was man's work really, and she was a slight woman who was six stone pretty much her whole life.

This can be bad news for the workers in the shut assembly plants, but ends up being pretty much a wash for the economy as a whole.

Next, next year: well, pretty much the same as the year before, but the school ball is going to be interesting.

That was pretty much it for the crew: the ship was almost completely automated.

Of course, Wales is also notable because he's pretty much willing to weigh in on anything tech, even if it seems outside his purview.

I'm sorry . I thought we were all pretty much in agreement .

"Both wings were broken at pretty much the same place on the same side and the side of the head was fractured, " he explains.

Moving at least two of them is pretty much a necessity; if you keep them around on the bench, their value will fall.

And, with corn and soybean prices pretty much unchanged, that means higher profitability, as measured by the USDA's milk-feed ratio.

Just have a spotless record for the last 30 years. Pretty much count's all of us out. Which means we've gotta get him on board.

In this article, we have followed a pretty much pre-defined orchestration path, with the new order resource URL being the only dynamic bit.

Mmm . . . I would have thought your state of Being would be pretty much balanced all of the time.

Our role is to not only do this hourly, to be able to do this pretty much every minute.

However, not only that the market is pretty much overbought , we're still in a bear market so we do not expect a V-shaped recovery.

There is no need to worry about that , since you're pretty much a beginner, I think it's better for you to just stick to one accent.

The museum has been a place of pilgrimage for the artist's Eastern and Western admirers pretty much since it opened in 1985.

But pretty much everyone in tech decided long ago that vertical integration was an unworkable model.

The 20 mpg we averaged is nothing special, though it's pretty much on par with its rivals.

The biggest deadline of course is our own mortality. Faced with that question, pretty much everything that isn't truly important fades away.

But I can tell you this much; we lived in South Florida, so I can pretty much guarantee you that it was hotter than hell on Fry Day.

To the first question they say, well, the outline of my face on the mirror would be pretty much the size of my face.

Roy: Hmm. Go figure. I had pretty much given up on there being any justice at this farce of a trial, but I guess I was being too cynical.

That pretty much says it all, and obviously it can serve as the framework for a SOA-based development process, as well.

But Rowley forgot to put batteries in his CD player, so it was pretty much worthless.

I think we got a very good business result there, we pretty much doubled our money in terms of the transfer fee three years ago.

Not right now, I don't have any big plans, I just sort of want to focus on acting and that's pretty much it for this year.

DK: And I also have pretty much tried to come up with as many different types of questions. . .

So I would expect human slaying to pretty much cancel out the entire MS nerf when you consider all of it's components (sustained dps wise).

King's main character finds a way to travel back in time, and that's pretty much the last moment in the book where anything goes as planned.

That's pretty much the opposite of the truth: taxes are a bad thing only when you don't pay them.

Everythingis interconnected and a life's-force energy flows through and around all. That is pretty much the notion of Qi.

It's true that computation theory pretty much proves you can't validate every possible state of a non-trivial system.

The programming disciplines include artificial intelligence, graphics, network, tools, gameplay, and is pretty much limitless.

But I have uncovered three principals at play with releasing my own drive that I suspect will work for pretty much anyone.

"The Internet is pretty much an unregulated flea market, " he said.

Ideologically, Abu Ghraib and domestic surveillance have pretty much disqualified the United States from lecturing the China on democracy.

For personal communication technologies, he argues, people react in pretty much the same way, a few national variations notwithstanding.

For a few days, pretty much all I did was curl up on the sofa under my duvet just watching these series.

"The war and working for the Army was my life, " he said. "Pretty much, your job is your life, and that was my first job. "

Once in your code, you can do pretty much whatever you want in order to satisfy the call or get out of the call.

It is not a pretty sight and that's pretty much the point.

It's not very sexy to say you'll do pretty much anything anyone tells you to do, but basically that's who I am. . .

But for the most part, life in vast areas of the American heartland remains pretty much the same as it was 30 and 40 years ago.

Your oven is pretty much an gadget already, you use meat thermometers, and that measuring cup looks an awful lot like a beaker.

That pretty much sums it up, don't you think?

As long as you regulated big marble buildings with rows of tellers, you pretty much had things nailed down.

Others were elated to see Premier Zhou emerge to greet us. I was merely relieved that he was there pretty much by himself.

Based on what I heard and the consensus reaction of the old China hands around the table, Le's talk was pretty much boilerplate.

That pretty much sums up Newfoundland, affectionately known to its inhabitants as The Rock.

So pretty much players are encouraged to be very creative in the game.

Nice room. . . really like the massive bathroom. . . good Tv too. nice pool which we pretty much had to ourselves for 3 days .

even a child can see that their bodies are pretty much the same as ours , apart from some exaggerated proportions and extra body hair.

Plus, you guys pretty much always experience the bliss of orgasm, whereas we have no guarantee that we'll enjoy such nirvana.

"A beautiful, evocative, and pretty much perfect book--this book will leave you changed for the better. "

For businesses of all shapes and sizes, the need to jump on the social Web bandwagon is pretty much a given at this point.

Pretty much any kind can work--what finally put a definite end to the Great Depression was military spending in World War II.

[but] reading it, pretty much every one of my enterprise-architecture alarm-bells went off. . .

No, let's not kid ourselves. Four years of college in California will pretty much end our relationship.

"He's pretty much the same, just big, 7-6, ' O'Neal said. " He's just doing what he's supposed to do.

"Each time I pick up the phone, I answer pretty much the same questions from my parents, " Zhou said.

Software I believe is pretty much easy to write from anywhere.

Public timelines are cached for at least 60 seconds by Twitter, so requesting an update is pretty much a waste of time.

So for now, at least, the Leaf, which Nissan claims can travel 100 mileson a single battery charge, has the stage pretty much to itself.

The fact is: America's obsession with meat and dairy has pretty much destroyed our sense of taste.

Pretty much any kind of external service is going to require an asynchronous call that returns on the UI thread.

That statistic is a little unfair: private schools account for a fifth of the people taking A-levels (pretty much essential for getting in).

Mr Obama, in other words, looks like a leader pretty much in command of his agenda.

Andrew Bynum: Running track. Hitting the weights. That's pretty much it. Basketball stuff, I did with him and Gerald Wilkins.

I really like having a DSL to develop integration flows in. The disadvantage of ServiceMix is pretty much tied to its advantages.

e. g. Part of living up here in Marin is meeting and befriending smart folks who have pretty much nothing to do with my business.

Nothing realy changes around here. One day is pretty much like the next.

And pretty much any kind of business that used a computer could be rebranded as a "dotcom" , often before having a dollar of income.

According to a report published Wednesday in the British Medical Journal, men want sex pretty much until they are almost dead.

One of the best things, is that the South Pacific ensures that there is plenty of swell from pretty much every direction, all year round.

I found pretty much what I expected: The old lady lived in a one room sharecroppers3 cabin in the middle of a cotton field.

"It was a lot of stress on the family. I pretty much depleted my entire 401, " he said.

You know pretty much about DanYang .

But, strangely enough, the big strategic questions about China's emergence as a great power remain pretty much the same.

It was the most amazing thing that I ever discovered, pretty much. There is many different aspects to freediving.

And he's pretty much acknowledging that he thinks we are the best team in the NBA when takes that "accept the challenge" stance, .

Prime ministers since Mr Koizumi have tried to centralise authority within the cabinet office and pretty much failed.

With modern-day technological advances, you can send an email from pretty much anywhere. As it turns out, even from beyond the grave.

The Bank of England has pretty much abandoned the near-term fight.

You pretty much grew up in the back of the pickup truck.

Gump meets Jenny at this time , and she will pretty much become one of the centerpieces of his world .

Things pretty much continued like this through sixth and seventh grades.

I got so worked up about those messages that I pretty much made it my mission to find another girl and hook up with her, which I did.

Collectibles can be pretty much any physical asset with a value that increases over time.

(businessandblogging. com) Anyone who knows me personally knows that I'm pretty much of a straight shooter.

He will also achieve pretty much the same stock of knowledge since that knowledge is an ingredient of his habitual pursuits.

The website built pretty much from the ground up but we already have working forum software (IPB) and a google apps account we use.

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression_r it leaves on my face.

After a subtly acute respiratory failure numbing of the tongue, it tastes pretty much like flounder and is easily overpowered by any sauce.

America is dissatisfied with that, because that's pretty much where China would get to on the basis of its existing policies.

You know pretty much about Baoqing.

The Danish capital pretty much covers all the needs of the international visitor, and does it with typical Scandinavian assurance and flair.

"When I was in high school, education was pretty much available to every child, " she said.

Scott: Well I googled "resume writing" and got the basic format, but I'm pretty much lost when it comes to the language.

Type "drunk" and the name of pretty much any animal into YouTube and you'll be rewarded with hilarious footage of inebriated beasts.

Moreover, and perhaps more significantly, pretty much all the components for MIT's setup are off-the-shelf.

We're pretty much small and we're not the most athletic team out there, but our hard work and drive to get the ball is the difference.

The only things left are my trophies and my old room. My parents wanted to keep it pretty much the same.

You know pretty much about Zunyi .

For pretty much my entire life, she was a college math professor (and still is).

Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy.

If someone is using pretty much only infantry, this should be an instant win for you.

He can pretty much decide for himself what the Cause is going to be, as long as it involves people and aid.

Do not forget that snow is a reflective surface, it will bounce light off pretty much everywhere.

My acronym is ATOM and good ol' Atom allows you to organize pretty much any space using four simple steps.

It's pretty much got everything you could imagine to offer: great people, great variety, it's got the Gold Coast.

"It was pretty much in line with expectations, " said Philip Tomlinson, managing consultant at CRU Strategies, a metals consultancy.

On the implementation side, we follow pretty much exactly the approach shown in the first section.

Ministers will try again next week but deadlock has pretty much marked all other such meetings over the past two years or so.

In an interpreted environment, the standard "link" phase of program development pretty much vanishes.